A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A single sheet of folded paper. Writing on one side only. A short prayer, an offering to the yaksha (Tib གནོད་སྦྱིན་ Wylie gnod sbyin) Potentially very harmful spirits and d...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in both "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A divination text. Perhaps a section of a tsipa (astrologer) text describing how to recognise / calculate good and bad, auspicious and ina...
An astrological thangka / divination chart consulted by astrologers in order to work out auspicious dates according to the year, month and date of birth of the individual requesting the information. Extent: One astrological thangka / divination chart. Size and dimensions of original material: 23 ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink. ༄༅། །ཀོང་རྩེའི་ལྟོས་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་བུམ་གཏེར་སྦད་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།། A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase (bum pa)...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink A bone ceremony undertaken on behalf of ordinary people by a chowa or lamas. Bones are gathered a few days after death from the cremation site. The ritual is undertaken i...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase ( bum pa ) sometimes containing precious items (rin po che) , gold, silk, auspicious objects, grains...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The cover is very dark cover so the title text is hard to read. This is an offering to the 100 deities who reside in Ganden, a Buddhist heaven, a pure joyous land occupied by Buddhas and Boddhisatva...
Two brass stands for the human skull cup. Extent: Brass stands. Size and dimensions of original material: 13 x 8 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
A human skull cup or ka pa la. An object commonly used in tantric rituals. Extent: One skull cup. Size and dimensions of original material: 15.5 x 13 x 6 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
A collection of small objects, two conches, a dagger with a broken blade, a vajra, and a tsa tas mould. Extent: A collection of six small objects. Size and dimensions of original material: various. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.